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Pershing Titanium Placer Claims

Occurrence in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068504
MRDS ID W001576
Record type Site
Current site name Pershing Titanium Placer Claims
Alternate or previous names Claims Cover Area of Old 1930's Claims of Scossa Mohawk Mining Co., And Scossa Gold Belt Mines Co.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.58432, 40.71656 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 1.5 MILES WEST OF MAIN SCOSSA MINE AREA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Scossa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Quinn(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 033N 030E 08,09,16,17 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS TO CENTRAL AREA OF CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Rutile Unknown
Sphene Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.58432, 40.71656
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: PLACER-MODERN-FLUVIAL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Scossa District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner John Prater, Robert Chandler And Associates Of Lovelock, Nv
    First year 1963

Comments on development

  • 16 PLACER CLAIMS. NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1984.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BEAL, L. H., 1963, INVESTIGATION OF TITANIUM OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES REPT. 3, 42 P.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 11, 1931, MAP.

  • Deposit

    NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILE 297, ITEM 1.

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, 1984, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION OF AREA.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ASSAYS OF MORE THAN 20 SAMPLES VARIED FROM LESS THAN 1.0% TO 1.6% TIO2. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1972 Cooper, Margaret U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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